What is Attention? ability to focus on a task. ability to concentrate. refers to the allocation of processing resources. (Anderson, 1995) (assumes limited resources)
Different Aspects of Attention: selective attention divided attention automaticity
Selective Attention: Difficult to attend to more that thing at the same time. Trying to attend to one task over another requires selective attention.
ability to focus on a task.
ability to concentrate.
refers to the allocation of processing resources. (Anderson, 1995) (assumes limited resources)
Different Aspects of Attention:
selective attention
divided attention
automaticity
Selective Attention:
Difficult to attend to more that thing at the same time.
Trying to attend to one task over another requires selective attention.